Tuesday's Top 50 Media News & Stories
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Similar to Facebook’s controversial social experiment , The U.S. Defense Department conducts a range of social media experiments, including one project that analyzed how users understand and consume information on Twitter. Before t...
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While the detention of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, undocumented immigrant and activist Jose Antonio Vargas in Texas on Tuesday is a personal setback for him, the way the media has handled the story shows how effective Vargas and o...
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Dutch communications agency Just is encouraging Facebook users to give up the network for 99 days. The idea came about in response to Facebook’s recent mood experiments involving hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting users . It als...
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Guardian : Guardian names Eamonn Store CEO of US operation — Guardian News & Media announces appointment of new CEO of Guardian's US operation — Guardian News & Media (GNM) has today announced...
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It’s 81 degrees in New York City today, but on this morning’s “Today” show, Matt Lauer was likely quite a bit colder. Responding to a challenge issued by Hall of Fame golfer Greg Norman , Lauer participated in the...
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FOX was number one Monday among adults 18-49 and with total viewers. MasterChef earned a 1.8 down two tenths from last week’s season high 2.0 adults 18-49 rating. On CBS, Under The Dome scored a 1.9 up two tenths from last weekR...
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In this April 10, 1996 file photo, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” are shown on display during a media tour of the “America’s Smithsonian” exhibition in Kansas City...
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Geofilters will be available in New York City and Los Angeles starting today. The company has also made the filters available in a number of undisclosed locations that users will be able to discover.
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Disgraced ex-CBS anchor Rob Morrison whined to a judge Tuesday that he only serial-dialed his estranged wife more than 120 times over three days because he wanted to talk to...
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Greg Gilman / The Wrap : NPR Senior VP Margaret Low Smith Joins The Atlantic as President of AtlanticLIVE — Margaret Low Smith has joined The Atlantic as vice president and president of its events practice, AtlanticLIV...
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Following strong pushback from the Jewish community in May for Twitter comments deemed anti-semitic, MSNBC’s Touré has apparently found his social media solution: stop tweeting. BuzzFeed’s Dorsey Shaw noticed yesterday that &...
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In April of 2013, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's film "Citizen Koch" died an untimely death. The film had sought to illustrate the role of Koch money in American electoral politics. But the very day after the "Citizen Koch" played at the Wis...
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Bravo is bolstering its lineup with three new scripted series and expanding its "Million Dollar Listing" to San Francisco, while renewing the Emmy-nominated "Million Dollar Listing New York" for a fourth season.
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab : ProPublica sees $30,000 in new revenue from Data Store — Just five months after opening up its Data Store — which sells some of the big datasets its reporters produce for st...
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A Detroit news crew was shot at on Monday while attempting to interview an elderly victim of a recent break-in. WXYZ reporter Jonathan Carlson and a photographer were working on a story about an 88-year-old man who had been robbed and he...
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Westwood One announced an agreement with NextRadio that enables all members of the U.S. Radio Industry to use ad inventory to fund the Industry’s Sprint payments.
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Tony Hall, the Director General of the BBC, has been forced to defend himself against accusations of racism made by an MP during a parliamentary inquiry into the future of the broadcast organisation.
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For the second week in a row, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer ” takes the A25-54 demo with an +85,000 viewer lead on “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams .” Williams held a more than half a million lead on Sawy...
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Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of WNWO-TV Toledo (NBC) has reached a two-year retransmission consent agreement with Buckeye Cable
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New Google Glass app Monocle feeds you just enough of the most popular Reddit submissions to keep you following the site throughout the day.
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The Martin Agency would like you to “Meet the Hopsons,” a family who live in a giant bouncy house. The Hopsons fell in love with their neighborhood but, since all the houses have vinyl siding, they assumed they couldn’t...
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For more than 30 years, TBWA/Media Arts Lab has enjoyed one of the most prized advertising accounts on the planet. After reports from the New York Post et al. and that entity called “Madison Avenue” , agencies are saliva...
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association had claimed that Dick Clark Productions improperly renewed broadcast rights to the show with NBC.
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The witness list has been published for the Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing 7/16 titled, “At a Tipping Point: Consumer Choice, Consolidation and
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(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years as the software maker looks to integrate Nokia Oyj's handset unit, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the company's plans.
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"You certainly feel the toll that the siege and the impact of the previous conflicts have taken on the people here. The infrastructure of Gaza has been decimated for years. Palestinians have been suffering as a result of that blockade. Y...
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Previously published on BillMoyers.com The latest session of the US Supreme Court was especially contentious, with important decisions on the separation of church and state, organized labor, campaign finance reform, birth control and wom...
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A bipartisan coalition of five Members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of a resolution that opposes "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. With their co-s...
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Jose Antonio Vargas , a journalist and undocumented immigrant whose film “Documented” recently aired on CNN, has been detained at the airport in McAllen, Texas. FNC’s Greta Van Susteren sits down with ousted New York Ti...
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Todd Spangler / Variety : Hearst's Cosmo Bows Fitness Video-Subscription Service, Priced Higher Than Netflix — CosmoBody, first of publisher's planned Internet channels, offered for $9.95 per month — ...
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Thanks to this report from MediaPost , we now know that Maxus (part of the WPP’s GroupM) has been awarded NBC Universal ’s domestic digital media duties after a review. The annual ad spend is reported to be near $175 million . It w...
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Jose Antonio Vargas, an activist who has said he is an undocumented immigrant, was taken into custody by the Border Patrol in McAllen, Tex.
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Weather Channel reporter Julie Marin was sent out on a story for “AMHQ” this morning to demonstrate what to do if you see a baby locked in a hot car. Alongside two DeKalb Country firefighters, and armed with a tire iron, Mart...
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Younger viewers feel targeted online TV and video commercials are more intrusive than their older viewers -- also that online video messages are more annoying than traditional TV commercials. Some 64% of those between 18-44 found targete...
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Arianna Huffington is a media mogul, best-selling author, mother and, yes of course, our boss here at HuffPost Style. But we'd like to take this time to highlight one of her less talked about accomplishments: style maven. She has plenty ...
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Just like a strong retirement account has a very diversified portfolio we need our radio stations to have a creative and far reaching variety to offer our clients and listeners. This year I set out as a goal to create two new programs wi...
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goodness Mfg. takes on Silicon Valley in a new spot for Toshiba, presenting their Encore 2 as “the one device that quiets the hype.” In the animated, 30-second “Sillycon Valley,” goodness Mfg. presents a cartoonis...
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At ThrillerFest in Midtown Manhattan, aspiring writers learned at the feet of the pros, with talks on pacing, perspective, emotion and guns.
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Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times, is sitting down with two of television's leading female news anchors in her first set of exclusive interviews since her very public ouster from the paper. Abramson will fi...
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Thirty months after flaming out on the Republican primary campaign trail, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose aborted 2012 run logged a fifth-place finish in Iowa and a sixth-place showing in New Hampshire before being suspended, is suddenly en...
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Lesson of the day: It's best not to joke that you are going to give birth on live television. Because everyone will believe you -- and freak out. Savannah Guthrie learned that Tuesday morning when she teased with Howard Stern that she pl...
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Dylan Byers / Politico : Jill Abramson to give first post-NYT interview to Katie Couric on Thursday — Jill Abramson to sit with Katie Couric — Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson will...
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1. Google has received 75,000 ‘right to be forgotten’ requests, is receiving 1,000 more every day (William Turvill / The Press Gazzette) 2. FCC receives more than 677,000 comments on net neutrality proposal (Ted Johnson / Var...
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1. Readers gravitate away from free e-books (Mike Kozlowski / Good e-Reader) 2. Amazon tells authors 100% royalty offer was ‘sincere’ (The Bookseller) 3. Social media marketing, for novelists, is relationship building (Beth B...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas was arrested Tuesday after attempting to board a plane out of McAllen, Texas, according to United We Dream, an immigration advocacy group. On July 10, Vargas, who is an undocumented i...
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"What happened, we were gone for two weeks?!" Jon Stewart returned from his summer break on Monday night to find a heaping pile of disheartening news awaiting his satire, including the immigration crisis in California, growing threats fr...
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Margaret Low Smith, who has served as NPR's senior vice president for news for three years, is leaving the company to become the president of The Atlantic's live events business.
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Making good on its effort to re-brand, NBCUniversal's Oxygen network will look to refocus its efforts on young female viewers. The new logo and tagline - "very real" - make their debut October 7.
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NPR senior vice president for news Margaret Low Smith will join the Atlantic as a vice president and the president of the Atlantic’s events division, according to a press release Tuesday. Smith joined NPR in 1982 . She’s been...
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Kristen Hare / Poynter : Immigration activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas detained in Texas, say reports — Reports: Jose Antonio Vargas detained in Texas — Journalist and immigration activist J...
